Note-taking bash script for meetings - add to .bashrc

notes.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Meeting note bash functions - include in your .bashrc file.

# Commands:
#  note - Lists all past notes and their IDs.
#  note help - This.
#  note cd- Change your working directory to the notes storage folder
#  note uncd - Change your working directory to the last working directory (useful for getting out of the notes storage folder)
#  note new - Create a new note document. Will request user info then open it.
#  note [INT] - Open a past note by it's integer ID.

# Current note - can't have an underscore in the full path or it will break date-based sorting.

# TODO: output only last X notes except when -a/--all flag is set
# TODO: support default editor, instead of just nano

# Note: the IDs are not permanent, they can change whenever a new note doc is created.

# Change me to your default note path
defaultnotespath="$HOME/nextcloud/meeting-notes"

nicedefaultnotespath="~${defaultnotespath#$HOME}"

# Used internally by note() to make a new note file.
function notemake() {

  echo "";
  echo "Beginning new meeting note file"

  # TODO: Specify another date
  DATE=`date +%m-%d-%Y`

  defaultpath="$defaultnotespath"

  echo "Enter a meeting topic:"

  read topic;

  echo "";

  # Spaces to dashes
  topicslug=${topic// /-}

  # Lowercase
  topicslug=`echo $topicslug | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`

  filename="${topicslug}_${DATE}.md"
  filepath=${defaultpath}/${filename}

  # Check if file already exists
  if [ ! -f $filepath ]; then

    touch $defaultpath/$filename;

    echo "# $topic" > ${filepath}
    echo "## $DATE" >> ${filepath}
    echo "" >> ${filepath}
    echo "" >> ${filepath}

    echo "Opening ${filename}";
    # TODO: Wait for input to open nano, ask user
    nano +4 ${defaultpath}/${filename};

  else

    echo "Be aware, this notepad already exists.";

    echo "Opening ${filename}";
    sleep 1;

    # TODO: Wait for input to open nano, ask user
    nano +10000 ${defaultpath}/${filename};

  fi

  echo "";
  echo "Notefile stored at ${defaultpath}/${filename}";

  cd ${defaultpath}

}


# Used internally, don't call directly
# This is used to ensure all functions sort the files in the same way
function getnotefiles() {

  # Sorts files by date in name field
  f=2;
  ls $defaultnotespath/*.md | sort --numeric-sort --field-separator="_" --key=$f.7,$f.10 --key=$f.1,$f.3 --key=$f.4,$f.6

}

# Used internally, by note()
function notelist() {

#  echo "Listing current meeting notes";

  i=0

  echo "$(

  echo "::";
  echo "ID:Name:Date"
  echo "::";

  files="`getnotefiles`";

  for f in $files; do
    file=`basename $f`

    topicslug=`echo $file | awk -F "_" '{print $1}'`
    date=`echo $file | awk -F '[_.]' '{print $2}'`

    topic=${topicslug//-/ }
    topic="`echo $topic | sed 's/[^ ]\+/\L\u&/g'`";

    id=`printf "%02d\n" $i`
    echo "$id:$date:$topic";

    i=$((i+1))

  done

  )" | column -t -s ":" | sed -e 's/(null)//g'
}

function is_int() { return $(test "$@" -eq "$@" > /dev/null 2>&1); }

function note() {


  if [[ $1 = "new" ]] ; then
    notemake;

  elif [[ $1 = "help" || $1 = "man" || $1 = "?" || $1 = "-?" ]]; then
    echo "";
    echo "Notetaker Script";
    echo "";
    echo "Supported commands:";
    echo "";
    echo "  note";
    echo "    Lists all past notes and their IDs.";
    echo "";
    echo "  note help";
    echo "    This.";
    echo "";
    echo "  note cd";
    echo "    Change your working directory to the notes storage folder";
    echo "";
    echo "  note uncd";
    echo "    Change your working directory to the last working directory (useful for getting out of the notes storage folder)";
    echo "";
    echo "  note new";
    echo "    Create a new note document. Will request user info then open it.";
    echo "";
    echo "  note [INT]";
    echo "    Open a past note by it's integer ID.";
    echo "";

    return 0;

  elif [[ $1 = "cd" ]] ; then
    echo "";
    echo "Changing to notes directory: $nicedefaultnotespath/"

    echo "";
    cd $defaultnotespath/;

  elif [[ $1 = "uncd" ]] ; then
    echo "";
    echo "Changing to previous directory: $OLDPWD"

    echo "";
    cd $OLDPWD;


  elif [[ $1 = "" ]] ; then

    echo "No note specified. Select one from the list by it's ID";
    notelist

  elif $(is_int "${1}"); then
    # Get ID from args
    id=$1;

    # Fix off-by-one issue with id
    adjust=1
    fileCount=$(expr $id + $adjust)

    files="`getnotefiles`";

    # Select note by id
    fileToOpen="`echo $files | awk -v notefile=$fileCount '{ print $notefile }'`"

    if [[ $fileToOpen = "" ]]; then

      echo "Note ID $id does not exist";
      return 1;
    fi

    # Check if note file exists or not
    if [[ -f $fileToOpen ]]; then
      echo "Opening note ID $id";
      nano +100000 $fileToOpen;
      echo "Finished with `basename $fileToOpen`"
      echo "";
      return 0;
    else
      echo "Note ID $id does not exist."
      return 1;
    fi

  else

    echo "";
    echo "Command not recognized";
    echo "";
    return 1;

  fi

}